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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (4)
  • MEK Berlin
  • 2010-2014  (4)
  • History  (4)
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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789400728400
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 185p. 3 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 32
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. DeJong-Lambert, William The cold war politics of genetic research
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    Keywords: Science History ; Evolution (Biology) ; Science, general ; Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 1898-1976 ; Eugenics ; Soviet Union ; History ; Genetics ; Research ; Soviet Union ; History ; Genetics ; Political aspects ; Soviet Union ; History ; Lysenko, Trofim Denisovič 1898-1976 ; Genetik ; Ost-West-Konflikt
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  • 2
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    Book
    Chicago [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226058535 , 0226058530
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 286 S. , zahlr. Ill., Kt. , 25 cm
    DDC: 581.946
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    Keywords: Botany Colonies ; History ; Scientific expeditions Colonies ; History ; Botanical illustration Colonies ; History ; Natural history Colonies ; History ; Botany ; Spain ; Colonies ; History ; Scientific expeditions ; Spain ; Colonies ; History ; Botanical illustration ; Spain ; Colonies ; History ; Natural history ; Spain ; Colonies ; History ; Spanien ; Botanik ; Pflanzenbuch ; Illustration ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Spanien ; Botanik ; Pflanzenbuch ; Illustration ; Geschichte 1777-1816
    Abstract: Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780520269026 , 9780520269033
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 361 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mueggler, Erik, 1962 - The Paper Road
    DDC: 580.92/2
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    Keywords: Forrest, George Travel ; Rock, Joseph Francis Charles Travel ; Forrest, George 1873-1932 Travel ; Rock, Joseph Francis Charles 1884-1962 Travel ; Botany Fieldwork 20th century ; History ; Botany Fieldwork 20th century ; History ; Botany Fieldwork 20th century ; History ; Botanists Biography ; Botanists Biography ; Botany Fieldwork ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Yunnan Sheng ; Botany Fieldwork ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Gansu Sheng ; Botany Fieldwork ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Botanists Biography ; Scotland ; Botanists Biography ; United States ; Botanists Scotland ; Biography ; Botanists United States ; Biography ; Botany Fieldwork ; China ; Gansu Sheng ; History ; 20th century ; Botany Fieldwork ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; History ; 20th century ; Botany Fieldwork ; China ; Yunnan Sheng ; History ; 20th century ; Gansu Sheng (China) Description and travel ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Description and travel ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Description and travel ; Gansu Sheng (China) Description and travel ; China ; Gansu ; Yunnan ; Tibet ; Botanik
    Abstract: Pt. 1. The eyes of others -- Farmers and kings -- The paper road -- The golden mountain gate -- pt. 2. Bodies real and virtual -- Lost worlds -- The mountain -- Adventurers -- The book of the Earth
    Abstract: This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers an
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. The eyes of others -- Farmers and kings -- The paper road -- The golden mountain gate -- pt. 2. Bodies real and virtual -- Lost worlds -- The mountain -- Adventurers -- The book of the Earth.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780199940417
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 586 Seiten)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2012 Online-Ressource Oxford handbooks online. History
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics
    DDC: 363.9/2
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    Keywords: Eugenics History ; Eugenics History ; Eugenics ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Eugenik ; Geschichte 1850-2010
    Abstract: Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late 19th to the mid-20th century in a transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum. This book dispels the automatic and exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust.
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